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(No Model.) J. J. GOULD.

LABEL OR CARD HOLDER. No. 408,099. Patented July 30, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN J. GOULD, OF \VASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

LABEL OR CARD HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 408,099, dated July 30, 1889.

Application filed March 6, 1886.

T0 at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JOHN J AY GOULD, a citizen of the United States, residing at 'Washington, in the Districtof Columbia, have in vented certain new and useful Improvements in Spring-Holders for Cards, Labels, 850.; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to an improved mode of fastening, securing, or uniting materials of widely differing characters which are not readily united by the use of the ordinary adhesive substances, as in the securing of tin, steel, or other metallic plates to card-board, for example, when it is not desirable to perforate the latter, and in cases where glue, paste, or other common adhesive preparation is not effective. It is especially adapted to the attachment of spring-clasps to decorative panels, to support works of art, and in makin g card-racks for offices or drawing-rooms. I accomplish this in the manner illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 shows a fixed spring-clasp holding a card; Fig. 2, another of the many suitable forms of making the attached portion; Fig. 3, a way of applying this form of attachment to racks for various purposes; Fig. 4, a spring with a circular aperture which forms a pivotal point, so that the clasp may be turned, as shown by the dotted lines; Fig. 5, an ornamental metallic ribbon looped so as to form. a rack for supporting light articles of any kind, and Fig. (5 gives a cross-section of Fig. 1 at 0: 00.

Similar letters refer to like parts in all the several views.

\ act counterpart of the metallic plate A. The

piece C is secured to the card or panel D at the desired point with paste, glue, or any suitable cement, and the spring A is then set snugly in place, as shown, and is prevented from coming off by'pasting over both .A and Serial No. 194,260, (No model.)

C either a piece of paper or other convenient covering, as represented by the dotted lines E.

II is a card held in place by the tip of the clip A, and is placed there to illustrate the use of the same.

The base of the spring or plate A may be stamped out in a variety of shapes and the card-board piece C stamped to correspond. Fig. 2 illustrates this, the chief point, besides convenience of manufacture, being to adopt such a form as will not allow the spring to draw out.

Fig. 3 shows several springs A stamped from a single piece of metal, with suitable apertures B, to be secured substantially as already described.

Fig. 4: shows a modification of the idea, in which the opening B in the spring is circular, and when fitted over a fixed piece of cardboard C on a sheet or panel, and a larger disk G or other modified form of E is made to cap or cover this central disk and is mucilaged to it, the spring will rotate to anydesired angle, as shown.

F is an ornamental fan or other form of shield, which may be employed to hide from view the whole or a portion of any kind of spring or fastening used.

Springs in any desired number can be suit ably placed upon a wall or a pasteboard back, and a letter of the alphabet may be secured to each of the coverings E, thus forming an office card-rack or file-holder.

Fig. 5 shows a metallic ribbon looped between the apertures B, adapted to hold cards, tools, or small utensils of almost any kind.

It may frequently be found desirable to have the base piece or plate D of metal and the spring or retaining plate or plates A of card-board or other suitable material. This is substantially the reverse order, in part, of

spirit and in fact the same fundamental idea as that presented in each of the six figures the essence of the invention, in short.

Let a sheet of tin or other metal be substituted for the card-board D, and let the same be provided with any number of perforations requiredat intervals like those of apertures B in Figs. 3 and 4, for example. As at the first, the perforations or indentures B are also what I have already described, but is inin this case made to be filled in accurately with card-board O of the thickness of the metallic plate. Then a card-strip A is stuck to C on one side and a card or paper piece E made to adhere similarly to the other side of C; or, if a double-faced rack D is desired, the retainingpieces A are placed on each side of and are pasted to C.

Fig. 6 gives a sectional view of Fig. 1 at 00 00.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I desire to claim and secure by Letters Patent is- 1. The within-described improved device, consisting'in a thin metal strip shaped at one end to form a recess in it or a projection upon it, a card-board of the same thickness as the said metal strip, having a recess or slot' in it the counterpart of the said recess or projection in the metal strip, said card-board secured to a base-piece, the said metal strip fitted into the said recess or slot of the cardboard, and a covering placed over the cardboard and strip and secured to the base-piece, all as specified.

2. The within-described improved card and label holder having a base upon which is cemented a circular disk, in combination with a strip having a circular aperture through it and a covering-piece.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN J. GOULD. Witnesses:

GEO. B. STARKWEATHER, CLARA B. Coecms. 

